How to improve your reader’s experience.

How to improve your reader’s experience.

Learning from UX.   In my coaching and editing practice, I work with nonfiction authors as well as fiction ones. I have worked with a good number of people from the tech world, specifically UX design. If you’re not familiar with that field, UX means “User...
3 Tricks For Stronger Openings

3 Tricks For Stronger Openings

The Dreaded Info Dump   Imagine you’re at a party, where you don’t know anyone. (Apologies if you’re an introvert like me, where “being at a party where you don’t know anyone” ranks right up there with “skydiving” or “being hunted for sport” on the list of things...
Torture for Fun and Profit

Torture for Fun and Profit

  As part of both my coaching service and my critique service, I get to see the framework of a lot of stories in progress. When it comes to conflict in general, and Hopeless Moments in the third act in particular, there’s one thing I notice, over and over...
From a certain point of view…

From a certain point of view…

  First, a basic overview, just in case people are unfamiliar: POV stands for Point of View. This is the perspective from which the story/scene is told. Omniscient POV is told from the perspective of an all-seeing, all-knowing narrator. As a result, a lot of...